Saenai Quiz no Kotaekata (How to Answer a Boring Quiz): Do You Really Know Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata (Saekano)?

This is a set of questions adapted from the official quiz featured in Dragon Magazine’s March 2017 issue. The questions are pretty easy to answer if you’ve been following the light novels so far. This quiz is separated to three sections with ten questions each. Track your own answers with a note and check the right ones at the end of this quiz!

First Part

1. Tomoya wrote the following line in the prologue of the plot he first came up with, “One spring day, I encountered ______”

Destiny

Youth

Katou

2. What is the content of the mail that Megumi found out was from Michiru when she was freeloading at Tomoya’s house?

What time will you be back today?

What’s for dinner today?

When are you going to the bath today?

2. There are four members of icy tail. Micchy, Echika, Ranko, and?

Toki

Rei

Jagi

4. What’s Eriri doing in the following illustration?

Blushing after becoming best friends with Megumi and calling each other by their first names

Getting flustered over Tomoya noticing the clothes that she picked herself for the first time

Enduring the urge to go to the toilet in a serious situation

5. On the day of the school festival, Tomoya couldn’t find Utaha even after searching for her since the morning. He finally met her during the afternoon, but what was she doing at that time?

Reading at the school’s rooftop

Writing the manuscript for her new light novel in the audiovisual (AV) room

Looking at the performance of the script she wrote at the gymnasium

6. What was the reason Megumi used to quickly refuse the male student who confessed to her?

“I’m already going out with someone else, so now’s a bit…”

“The Winter Comiket is coming up, so now’s a bit…”

“The recording for the anime’s second season is coming up, so now’s a bit…”

7. What was first reason Megumi—who up until that point has never got mad at whatever Tomoya said to her—got mad for real?

Failing to complete the game in time for the Winter Comiket

Not consulting her about the deadline and Eriri’s problem

Choosing the Yurikamome Line instead of Rinkai Line on the way back from the Winter Comiket

8. What caused Eriri to let out a huge scream as seen in the following illustration?

She failed to get Tomoya’s glasses

Utaha robbed Tomoya’s first kiss from her

She missed the bullet train to Osaka

9. At the scene when Eriri and Utaha met without Tomoya knowing, who initiated the conversation first?

Eriri

Utaha

Both of them at the same time

10. At the bullet train on the way home from the reconciliation trip, the phrase that Megumi softy whispered to the sleeping Eriri was: “If Eriri is aiming to become the world’s happiest ___(A)___, then I will become the world’s happiest ___(B)___.”

Fill the (A) and (B) with the correct words from the following choices:

Creator

Main heroine

Classmate B

Light novel writer

Doujingoro

Idol voice actress

Circle representative

Editor

Illustrator

3D bishoujo

Second Part

11. The spot near Tomoya’s house has this nickname: “tantei-zaka” (detective slope). The reason for this naming lies in the old sign located at that spot that reads:

Sakagami Detective Agency

Sakanaka Detective Agency

Sakashita Detective Agency

12. At the scene when Tomoya and Megumi who attended Utako Kasumi’s signing event, whose name is written on the signed book that Megumi received?

Buriki

Shoji Gatoh

Fumiaki Maruto

13. At the scene when Tomoya was having a meeting with Utaha while Eriri hid in his closet, what was the thing that Eriri took home with her after Utaha left Tomoya’s house?